HEALTH CARE

Virginia Tech researchers with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have joined a Children's National Hospital effort to treat...

Teenagers living with obesity who say hunger is preventing them from losing weight (hunger-barrier ALwO) perceive their weight more negatively...

Industrially processed foods and beverages have increased shelf-life and availability, which has helped to manage the increasing global food demand...

New research has identified a potential method for treating fragile X syndrome, a leading cause of autism spectrum disorders that...

In a recent study published by the Baker Institute, researchers propose several policy solutions that can effectively target different aspects...

Scientists have been working tirelessly to contain the pandemic of the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute...

Teenage boys are twice as likely as girls to die by suicide, and, when boys become men, they are three...

Earlier research suggests that women with a higher body mass index (BMI) feed their infants for shorter durations. The underlying...

Human milk (HM) contains a wide range of biologically active components that include estrogens and progesterone. Although maternal estrogens and...

According to a new study conducted by the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry of the University of Turku and the...

Australian nanomedicine researchers have come up with a new approach to solving a decades-old clinical problem: getting treatment drugs to...

Children's Cancer Research Fund has awarded $250,000 to an innovative new approach to treating leukemia – blood cancer – being...

Fitter pupils’ cognition was up to 20% better across a range of tasks compared to their less-fit peers, a study...

A strong link between the extent of deprivation of local authorities in England and their numbers of children going into...